Detection of Along-track Ground Moving Targets in High Resolution Spaceborne Sar Images

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  • D. Weihing
چکیده

Future high resolution multi-aperture SAR satellites entail high potential for large-area traffic monitoring from space. While many approaches for detecting across-track moving vehicles in SAR images have already been published within the recent years, the detection of objects moving in along-track is still an issue to be solved. This paper deals with the detection of vehicles, mainly moving in along-track, in high resolution SAR images. The blurring effect caused by the along-track motion component is exploited for this detection scheme. The presented approach is based on a matched filter bank where the SAR image is processed with different matched filters. To extract a particular moving object from the filter bank, a specialized peak detector is employed. The proposed technique is demonstrated using data of an airborne SAR system (E-SAR from the DLR) and its potential is analyzed. KURZFASSUNG: Für grossflächige Verkehrsüberwachung bieten sich zukünftige hochaufgelöste SAR-Aufnahmen an. Während in den letzten Jahren verschiedene Ansätze zur Detektion von Fahrzeugen, die sich in across-track bewegen, veröffentlicht wurden, ist die Detektion von Fahrzeugen in along-track ein noch zu lösendes Problem. In diesem Artikel wird ein Ansatz zur Detektion von Fahrzeugen, hauptsächlich in along-track fahrend, in SAR Bildern präsentiert. Der sogenannte Verschmierungseffekt eines Objektes, verursacht von dessen Bewegung in along-track, wird hierfür herangezogen. Der Ansatz basiert auf der Verwendung von unterschiedlichen Filtern zur Fokussierung des SAR Bildes. Um ein Bewegtobjekt aus dem Stapel der unterschiedlich fokussierten Bilder zu extrahieren, wird ein spezialisierter Peak-Detektor verwendet. Anhand von flugzeuggetragenen SAR Daten (E-SAR von DLR) wird diese Methode veranschaulicht und das Potential dieses Ansatzes analysiert.

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تاریخ انتشار 2006